Woolworths failed to consider the negative effects its now-axed store would have had on the city’s Aboriginal community and put commercial benefits first, independent report finds | domp
Retail giant Woolworths comprehensively failed to consider the significant negative effects of its now-axed Darwin Dan Murphy’s store would have had on the city’s Aboriginal community and put commercial benefits above all other considerations, an independent report has found.
Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci and chairman Gordon Cairns have apologised for the company’s failings when planning to build the Dan Murphy’s site.
“[Woolworths] failed to give sufficient reflective consideration to First Nations people of Darwin and the Northern Territory with respect to their socio-economic status, their histories and their struggles to overcome disempowerment and disadvantage,” the report reads. “More fundamentally, it failed to sufficiently understand that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples view alcohol as nothing short of a demon that leaves destruction in its wake.”
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